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lish?d in his annual report, as well as in several agricultural papers. 



The same year and in 1907 the Rose Chafer caused enormous 

 losses in vineyards in the Niagara district, an account of which 

 appears in his report for 1907. The same year the Rusty Tus- 

 sock Moth was given special study. 



In 1907 and during the present year, the large losses in the 

 hop-yards of British Columbia occasioned by the attacks of the 

 Hop Flea Beetle, called for special thought, and during his recent 

 trip to British Columbia in September last he visited the hop- 

 yards and gave valuable advice to those in charge. 



The above are only a few of the injurious insects upon which 

 Dr. Fletcher did original research work. His studies of even the 

 very commonest insects resulted in the finding out of new facts. 



In his annual reports, etc,, Dr. Fletcher did grand work in 

 educating farmers, fruit-growers, market gardeners etc., to know 

 their worst insect enemies and the way to fight them, and many 

 articles appeared by him on such well-known pests as the San 

 Jos^ Scale, the Codling Moth, the Plum Curculio, the Colorado 

 Potato Beetle, the Turnip Beetle, Root Maggots, Cutworms, 

 Grasshoppers, the Hessian Fly, the Wheat Midge, the Western 

 Wheat-stem Sawfiy, the Joint-worm, the Oyster-shell Scale, 

 White Grubs, the Pea Weevil, etc, etc. 



In the year 1896, Dr. Fletcher received the honorary degree 

 of LL. D., from Queen's University, in recognition of the great 

 services he had rendered to agricultural science. He also 

 received honours from various foreign societies. He was elected 

 a Fellow of the Linnaean Society, a Fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of America, a Member of the Association 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, an Honorary Member 

 of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, a Cor- 

 esponding Member of the Washington Entomological Society, 

 and was at the time of his death President of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario and Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society 

 of Canada. He was the first man to urge the formation of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, which is the most impor- 

 tant societv of its kind in the world. For many years he was a 

 member of the Editing Committee of the Canadian Entomologist, 

 and quite recently, since their beginning, was on the Editorial 

 Boards of the Journal of Economic Entomology and of the 

 Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 



NOTE — Plate No. VI is from a small negative taken two years ago by Mr. Shutt, 

 and is considered as giving Dr. Fletcher in a characteristic pose. Members and friends 

 can obtain copies of the photograph from the Topley Studio, Ottawa. 



